Farewell, Stanley

I I was one of the few artists to have worked more than once with him. The experience and memories are indelibly etched on my brain. The face-to-face meetings for spotting music to compose for " A Clockwork Orange " and " The Shining " couldn't have lasted very much more than a week or two each for me and my then partner and producer, Rachel (it would be unfair to Rachel to characterize her impressions here, and so these are only my observations, although she was present and worked with me throughout the details that follow.) Since my none-too-portable studio was located in New York, and Kubrick didn't travel, the rest of the collaboration took place via long phone calls and messages, express packages of cassettes, tapes, film and video footage, and written memos and notes. If faxing had been more available, and the Web had existed back then, it's certain we'd have used these media to communicate in great detail, too! Stanley Kubrick was not an easy man to work for. He was vastly interesting, completely open about all his "secrets", and had a dry sense of humor. You were always stimulated working with him. But it was seldom painless. I would truly have preferred to be another director or friend. Read Arthur C. Clarke's "

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STANLEY KUBRICK Filmmaker Kubrick wrote and directed some of the most talked-about films of the 1960s and 1970s: the Roman slave saga Spartacus (1960), the Cold War satire Dr. Strangelove (1964), the spooky and thoughtful space opera 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, co-written with Arthur C. Clarke ), the nightmarish A Clockwork Orange (1971), and the socko horror film The Shining (1978, starring Jack Nicholson ). Kubrick's films featured arresting visuals, inventive stories and an often bleak view of humanity. The director was known as a deliberate perfectionist who often filmed dozens of takes of a single shot and took three or more years to plan and shoot a film. He was also famously reclusive, rarely appearing in public and wrapping his later productions in extreme secrecy. He died in 1999 shortly after shooting his last film, Eyes Wide Shut , with Nicole Kidman and Tom CruiseExtra credit : After Kubrick's death his long-planned film project, A.I. , was completed and released by Steven Spielberg in 2001. Kubrick Multimedia Film GuideGreat film-by-film info and links The Kubrick SiteHuge collection of essays and articles The alt.Kubrick.movies FAQ